E.P.A. Chief Rejects Recommendations on Soot
By FELICITY BARRINGER
Published: September 22, 2006
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 — The Environmental Protection Agency’s administrator on Thursday rejected the recommendations of his staff — and an unusual public plea from independent science advisers — choosing instead to tighten only one of two standards regulating the amount of lethal particles of soot in the air.
The short-term daily standard, intended to control acute exposure to the minute particles, was cut nearly in half. But the annual standard, which affects chronic exposure, remains at its original 1997 level.
[Full story at http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/us/22soot.html ]
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